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Decided to go in search of some skipjack today. Got a late start... hit the water a little after Noon. For an hour or so things went great... caught some MONSTER skipjack. Some on a Sabiki rig, some on float & fly. Discovered a cool technique... I anchored in current and just let the Sabiki rig "troll" in the current about 20 feet behind the boat while I was casting the float & fly. Every few minutes a school of skipjack would come along and go crazy on the Sabiki rig... even without any "action" to it.<br /><br />Lost and missed a LOT on the float & fly... not so many on the Sabiki, except when I'd hook more than two. I put 14 in the cooler and like I said, some of them were HUGE. But about 1:30 it was like someone flipped a light switch. The skipjack just absolutely disappeared. I fished hard for another 45 minutes and couldn't catch a single one. Sort of strange how they just shutdown. DK, check your almanac.<br /><br />But I couldn't leave the water without trying to feed a skipjack to a big catfish. I created a little video documentary of that effort to orund out this fishing report. Don't expect anything Spielbergish... but you may find it entertaining (especially an extremely unflattering low angle shot): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8g96_n3UQ<br /><br />Life is good and gettin' better every day!